Possible vending machine MS
Apr 4, 2014 | 10:26 pm
#19
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Texas
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Posts: 228
I feel for the OP. It brings me good memories of one of my earlier posts sharing something new...and the immediate response I got -
"...the people behind the counter would come out and start beating you with sticks"
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...l#post11154627
"...the people behind the counter would come out and start beating you with sticks"
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...l#post11154627
Apr 5, 2014 | 7:15 am
#21
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Texas
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Posts: 228
By far the best product for liquidating twizzlers is this one.
Don't give folk bad ideas - they may just purchase one of these at a discount warehouse where they then would return it to the store for a credit to another card for a mini MS. This only hurts these warehouses.
Apr 5, 2014 | 5:59 pm
#24
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 50
I was really hoping this thread would die on its own, or remain a joke. Since I am in the vending business, let me say please don't do this.
Outside of soda machines owned and operated by Coke and Pepsi, most vending operators are the smallest of small business. Beyond the cost of the hardware, data/cellular fees run $10+/machine/month. Transaction fees (because transaction values are so small) run 5%+ and your refund will cost the operator that transaction fee. And that's all before you run the coin mech dry and the machine shuts down and sits making no money until someone fixes the problem. This is just not something where you can argue no one is getting hurt, or only a big bank is getting hurt.
Outside of soda machines owned and operated by Coke and Pepsi, most vending operators are the smallest of small business. Beyond the cost of the hardware, data/cellular fees run $10+/machine/month. Transaction fees (because transaction values are so small) run 5%+ and your refund will cost the operator that transaction fee. And that's all before you run the coin mech dry and the machine shuts down and sits making no money until someone fixes the problem. This is just not something where you can argue no one is getting hurt, or only a big bank is getting hurt.
Apr 5, 2014 | 6:12 pm
#25
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Land of the parrots and parrotheads
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Or a share draft account with The Bank of the Biker where you get a dime for each debit card use. We may have found the elusive cash back fountain of youth! And to think some once thought that returning luggage carts at the Frankfurt Airport for Euros was the Holy Grail. Why, we could all retire and live in an unfinished reclaimed Caracas high rise (The Tower of David for $35 a month) at this rate 
http://inhabitat.com/squatter-infest...er-of-david-6/
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